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How on earth can we truthfully understand and feel relationship if we merely follow the one straight line—here we have merely isolation in an enclosed idea of a straight line; such an idea, no matter how noble, concentrates only on a partial aspect of combat and is fitting with the opponent through a screen of resistance. True that a straight line is definitely valuable; take the pendulum—in order to swing to one side (the side one favors), you need to initiate the movement from the other side. Why are we isolated out from one side? Indeed, why don’t we look at one continuous swing as one whole!

In order to cope with what is, one must be equipped with flexibility of line and fit in from moment to moment, depending on what is being given. Having the two halves of one whole, which is the straight and the curve, we can truly have the choiceless awareness, and choiceless awareness can lead to reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding of combat in its suchness. Thus, in the highest stage, one is in the center of a circle and there he stands while yes and no pursue each other around the circumference. One can achieve that because he has abandoned all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides; he rests in direct intuition, which is returning to original freedom.